French Pronunciation Lesson: Use This To Be Better Understood

Mastering the French liaison can be your ticket to being better understood in French. Ready to learn how it works?
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0:00 - Intro
0:24 - “La liaison” in a nutshell
4:55 - Three kinds of liaison, and more pronunciation
8:44 - Common mistakes & Extra Pronunciation
12:04 - Practice
What’s your reason for wanting to boost your French fluency? If you’re like many of my students, you probably want to be better understood in French. Especially if you’ve been learning the language for years (or even decades!), it’s completely normal to want to make sure that people can actually understand you when you use your French.
There are many tips that I can share to help you be better understood in French, but the one I want to focus on today is the art of using liaisons in. These subtle connections between words are very common in spoken French, and you’ll automatically sound more fluent if you start using them.
Take care and stay safe.
😘 from Grenoble, France.
Géraldine

[@julienmanzila7698]

The way you’re saying determiner the first time was correct!

[@sa21g22g23]

Merci beaucoup pour enseigner cette splendide thème du debut de journée

[@stacyclark8590]

This is a super helpful video for me, since I have always been very insecure about whether to use a liaison or not. I would like to add a tip I got from one of your earlier videos that also helps with the idea of the liaison. You had a couple of videos once with an older lady who was a French teacher, and she gave a great tip on the liaison. She pointed out that the French never end a syllable with a consonant sound, therefore the liaison is ALWAYS attached to the next syllable. Uh n'incroyable or vou z'avez, for example. You do this regularly, right here on this video. When you are pronouncing these phrases slowly you always say "Il z'ont," for example. I found that to be an intensely helpful tip in improving my pronounciation.

[@cindymoody5995]

De-ter-me-ner not my-ner. Hope this helps! Thank you for your great videos, we really enjoy them!

[@jemoeder5347]

Wow, just discovering your channel and you really make the heap of rules more accessible. Two small remarks, since it's educational, at 13:14 "ont" is not a conjugation of "être" (which you seem to realise just after you say it), and, when at 15:23 you pronounce the sentence 'correctly', it sounds like there still is a liaison between "quand" and "Antoine", which would be forbidden because "Antoine" is a first name?

[@michaelcrummy8397]

Merci Géraldine. Vos bonnes astuces sont toujours utiles. Ayant peu d’opportunité de parler français en Amérique, vos leçons chaque samedi sont toujours bienvenue. L’automne arrive peu à peu ici en New Jersey, USA, et je hâte à regarder la Coupe Ryder de golfe de l’Italie à la fin du mois, et les séries éliminatoires de baseball professionnel. C’est notre passé-temps national. À bientôt.

[@billfromnic7093]

More idiomatic expressions please

[@janetstroup1]

Thank you, thank you, thank you, for this video, Geraldine! Liaisons have been tripping me up and your explanations have cleared that for me. Such a big help.

[@mfung7757]

Love your prononciation tips!

[@acciid]

One I got wrong was Les Halles. When I pronounced the s at the end of the Les, a French friend picked up on it and said it was silent.
I suppose that H isn't as silent as I thought it was.

[@johningham1880]

You forgot the fourth type: la liaison dangereuse.

[@nawimal]

❤

[@tonyhall4871]

Hi Geraldine, can you please remake this video again, because we can’t hear you !!!

[@tonyhall4871]

Hi Geraldine, oops my mistake all ok, dakor 🥴

[@jellybelly1191]

Dee ter min er